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About Me

PBX I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.

Book

Python Web Development with Django I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

Built using Django, served by Apache and mod_wsgi. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive. The markup engine is Markdown.

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

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21 posts containing "powerbook"

The syncbox
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
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OpenOffice.org, sorta-Aqua edition
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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Songbird almost-0.2
Monday, October 16th, 2006
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I hate those SitePal ads
Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Apple battery recall
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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Unbalanced
Friday, June 16th, 2006

QuickTime 0, Open Source 1
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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The Open Source Desktop, Revisited
Friday, May 5th, 2006
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Score one for Dell, sort of
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
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Technology wanted: FFE
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
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MacBook Pro speed bumps
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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Songbird, open source competition for iTunes
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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Best feature of the new MacBook Pro
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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4 comments

Palm TX: First Impressions
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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PowerBook "Safe Sleep"
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
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Gruber on the new Apple products
Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Mining Monday: FreeBSD, KDE and Me
Monday, September 26th, 2005
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NetGrowler
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
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Hard life for hardware
Monday, August 15th, 2005
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AppleJack for OS X
Friday, July 29th, 2005